Blog posts from English (#english)
Added all klia2 Parking Lanes (Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Terminal 2)
Mapping Saga Continues at klia2 (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)
Added Pier P gate numbers Added Pier Q gate numbers Added Pier K/L gate numbers I have discussed those changesets in Part 1 and Part 2. Now it’s time to complete this map. I recently added the final gates in klia2, which is located at Pier J (Domestic). That’s the main message, however someone have added some lengths of lines connected to the taxiway. Unfortunately, these are not visible in the regular OpenStreetMap layer. Before changeset Apparently, they are the aeroway:parking_position paths. These paths are self-explanatory, which are the ones followed by an aircraft to safely deliver passengers to the parking spot (and terminal gates). Bing satellite imagery provides a clear view of these lines to be added. That’s the motivation to complete the Pier K/L parking position lines in Changesets 63867934 and 63868266. Actually, there are some paths that are still unmapped, specifically in the gates K20, L20 and L22. aeroway:parking_position lines will be added in other piers (and hopefully Terminal 1) soon, to make the entire KLIA to be better mapped for the public.
Part 2 of Adding Gate Numbers in klia2 (Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Terminal 2)
Continuing from one of my previous post I have added more gates for Pier K/L and Pier Q. After changeset Before this changeset is submitted, the map of klia2 only has a full set of Pier P gate numbers (added by myself) and a lonely Gate Q10. I reused the old Q10 node in these changesets so there are fewer changes to the map database. Additionally, as in Changeset 63791506, I decided to join the Airport Gate “nodes” to the entire klia2 building. This makes node placement easier as I am no longer need to estimate the equal distance between the airport’s edge to those nodes. The Pier K/L is, perhaps, another unique feature of the klia2 Terminal. The official website from Malaysia Airports states that even though Pier K is intended for domestic flights and Pier I for international, they actually take place on the same pier area on different level heights. (Pier K gates are on Level 1A, while Pier L gates are on Level 2) Pier L has one additional gate, L22, which located very near to gates K20 and L20. To remove confusion I decided to re-join these numbers together in Changeset #63793136 After changeset As you can see above those gate numbers actually refer to three aircraft parking spaces nearby, where L22 has the largest one (for long-haul international flights such as AirAsia X). However, by joining the gate numbers in one point, passengers can simply know the direction they need to go to the gate. In KLIA Terminal 1 gate numbers are applied to apron areas instead of terminal buildings, but it would be good to add nodes such as lifts for informing passengers for waiting room areas for those remote gates. Pier J gate numbers are coming soon. Besides that, a skybridge above the aircraft taxiway is a great design.
Behind The Changesets: From A Missing Rest Area in OpenStreetMap
Major Changes in Central Park Mall Jakarta
This post was originally published for OpenStreetMap. Changeset details: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/56642302 The Central Park Mall is one of the popular shopping malls in West Jakarta, Indonesia. It is also inspired by the design of the Central Park in New York City. This mall has a park for visitors to walk around, called the Tribeca Park. Aside from that, this mall is also connected to the Tribeca (a 2-storey section of Central Park Mall consisting of several restaurants) and Neo Soho (the shopping mall below the new Soho apartment near to Central Park). These malls are owned by the same developer, PT. Agung Podomoro Land. In this changeset I added the new Tribeca (mall) section at the other side of Tribeca Park, including the skybridge connecting Tribeca ↔️ Central Park ↔️ Neo Soho. I also added more details on Tribeca Park itself, including added new footpaths, restaurants, ponds, fountains and a new escalator. There’s 1 more pond left unmapped, as I need to re-check on site for the accuracy of its position. So far, here’s the changes I made to this shopping mall. As of now, there might be some mistakes in my changes to, which I will fix it later. And here’s how my work is compared with Google Maps (as of 25 February 2018):
Who owns Android?
Note: This was posted as an answer on Quora. Android was originally founded by Andy Rubin in 2003 under the company name Android, Inc. It is correct that he previously worked for Apple and Microsoft, however he quit Apple, Inc. at about 15 years before the original iPhone was launched. At 2005, Google finished their acquisition of Android, Inc. Hence, Google becomes the author of Android. Two years after the acquisition of Android, Google launched the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), which lists companies, especially mobile device manufacturers, which ships some of their devices with Google’s Android OS (with Google Play Services). This leads to the fact that Android is not just owned by Google, but also all members of the Open Handset Alliance (including Samsung, Lenovo, Sony and other companies who makes Android devices). As the core parts of Android are open sourced, anyone may obtain these parts freely as regulated by the license. As a result, many variants of Android are also made available, which lead to creation of custom ROMs and inspires Google to create the “Be Together, Not the Same” motto of Android. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz6drXxrMI Outside of Google and the Open Handset Alliance, there are also some companies and communities responsible for developing custom Android ROMs, which includes: Amazon: not an OHA member, while responsible in making the OS for Amazon Fire devices which are also based on Android.BlackBerry: joined as an OHA member, while they were responsible in porting the Android runtime for QNX and BlackBerry 10.Jide Technologies: responsible for Remix OS, which ports and modifies Android OS for usage in PCs.LineageOS: the community revival of the popular CyanogenMod custom ROMs.OpenMobile WorldWide: responsible in providing Android services and OpenMobile ACL Android runtime for Samsung’s Tizen (and probably BlackBerry’s QNX and BlackBerry 10 as well). In conclusion, Android can actually be owned by anyone. You could grab the Android Open Source Project source code and do something with it. I feel that your question is incomplete though, as someone could own an Android OS the same way as owning a copy of Windows. Hopefully, this answer makes you understand about the diversity of Android OS, even though Google is currently the largest owner of Android.
